In Defense of Historical Literature: Essays on American History, Autobiography, Drama, and Fiction |
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... believe it to be . Not only in Gibbon , Voltaire , Hume , and Macaulay , but in Thucydides and Tacitus , in William Bradford and Cotton Mather , one can still find enough intelligent understanding of historical reality to keep old ...
... believe it to be . Not only in Gibbon , Voltaire , Hume , and Macaulay , but in Thucydides and Tacitus , in William Bradford and Cotton Mather , one can still find enough intelligent understanding of historical reality to keep old ...
Page 36
... believe in certain types of character that we cannot re - create a plausible version of Mather without ignoring or ironically sup- pressing seventeenth- and eighteenth - century conceptions of mo- tive and purpose . Mather remains a ...
... believe in certain types of character that we cannot re - create a plausible version of Mather without ignoring or ironically sup- pressing seventeenth- and eighteenth - century conceptions of mo- tive and purpose . Mather remains a ...
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... believe that even in the seventeenth century there were boys who suspected and tor- mented bright , sensitive , academically talented children ; yet I suspect the construction that builds on this probability the elabo- rate fiction that ...
... believe that even in the seventeenth century there were boys who suspected and tor- mented bright , sensitive , academically talented children ; yet I suspect the construction that builds on this probability the elabo- rate fiction that ...
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